Teaching division

Web sites, ideas and information about teaching division

Web sites

Division facts

The following sites are pretty much all about practicing division facts, presented in the form "8 / 4" (although using the normal symbol for division in most cases, not the keyboard version). These may be useful for year 2 and up, but don't really look at division from a sharing and grouping point of view.

• BBC Bitesize KS1 division and KS2 Bitesize multiplication and division
• BBC Teachers Division game - starts with dividing two digit numbers by 9 then 8.
• Fun4theBrain division games including Alien Lunchtime, Sketch's World and many others - these all follow the same basic pattern of choosing your divisor then having division questions presented to you with excellent graphics.
• Oswego Maths Magician - drills division facts but they are fairly simple, like 8 / 4.
• Oswego SumSense Division - drag and drop cards to make a division sentence. Number being divided is two digits so fairly challenging for year 1.
• Arcademic Skill Builders Drag Race Division game - drills you on division facts with two digit numbers to make your car go faster
• Mr Nussbaum goal shooting division facts
• Toon University Prime/Composite shootemup game. Definitely not for year 1, requires you to shoot "Prime", "Composite" or "Neither" with your cannon in response to provided numbers. Challenging!

Tools and Manipulatives
Division is easy to represent visually with the right smartboard tools. Here's what I've found...

• The NLVM division rectangle manipulative is quite useful, and even allows for remainders. (You may also want to use the inverse, the NLVM multiplication rectangle)